Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...American literature’s inclusion in the American literary canon and actively supported Native scholars, arguing that no one can have a competent understanding of the history, or literatures, of the Americas,...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...characters and readers of the novel. How can American Indians, very much including American Indian writers and the enterprises of American Indian literature and criticism, repossess dispossessed southeastern homelands and...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
Introduction The city of Atlanta has a reputation of promise and opportunity in the American ummah (the Islamic brotherhood and sisterhood), particularly for African American Muslims. Indeed, many leave cities...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...for American Studies at the British Library. His research centers upon on African American history and literature since 1865, with a particular interest in African American media and print culture....
Genres of Southern Literature
...of women's and African American literature. Considering African American and southern women's literary history apart from that of white or white male writers has been responsible for sometimes meaningful, but...
California Creek, North Carolina
NCDOT boundary marker, California Creek, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Drill rig, California Creek, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT geologist Jody Kuhne identifying springs in...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...number of African Americans migrating to the South exceeded the number of those leaving the region. Especially for returning and primary migrants frustrated by the declining economic opportunities available in...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...exclusively due to their aversion to slavery, many German-American historians have cautioned against inscribing the beliefs of the outspoken Forty-Eighters on the entire German-American population, including the approximately 225,000 German-born...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...African Americans, the local newspaper evidence reveals little connection between these groups and marijuana use. The lack of African Americans identified among those arrested for marijuana during this period appears...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...California, January 26, 2012. Photograph by Flickr user Mikey Walley. Courtesy of Mikey Wally, Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0. New Orleans rap is everywhere and nowhere. Lil Wayne reigns as...